Coptic Christology in Practice: Incarnation and Divine Participation in Late Antique and Medieval Egypt
Stephen J. Davis
Price: £65.00 (Hardback)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-925862-8
Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2008
392 pages, 15 in-text illustrations, 234×156 mm
Series: Oxford Early Christian Studies
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| Description |
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- A fresh approach to the topic of Christology that will open up new interdisciplinary conversations
- In its engagement with Coptic liturgy and worship, calls attention to an understudied but vital part of Coptic life and culture
- Translations of Coptic and Arabic texts allow non-specialists access to these important documents for the first time
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| Coptic Christology in Practice forges a new path in the study of ancient and medieval Christology. Employing a range of interdisciplinary methods derived from the fields of social history, discourse theory, ritual studies, and the visual arts, Stephen J. Davis demonstrates how Christian identity in Egypt was shaped by a set of replicable ‘christological practices’. He thus enables readers to trace the fascinating lines of the Coptic church’s theological and cultural transition from late antiquity to Dar al-Islam. |
Readership: Scholars and students of the history of late antiquity and the Middle Ages; of historical theology and patristics; of the history of Islam.
| Contents |
| Introduction: The Roots of Coptic Christology: Incarnation and Divine Participation in Late Antique Alexandrian Greek TheologyI. Coptic Literature and Liturgy1. Incarnation and Ritual Practice in the Fifth-Century Writings of Shenoute of Atripe
2. Christology in Coptic Eucharistic Liturgies
II. Bodies, Practices, and Sacred Space
3. Christology in Coptic Pilgrimage and the Cult of the Saints
4. Christology and Coptic Art: Images of the Incarnation on Egyptian Bodies and Churches
III. Arabization and Christian-Muslim Encounter
5. Incarnation and Christian-Muslim Apologetics in the Tenth-Century Writings of Sawirus al-Muqaffa
6. From Alexandria to Cairo: The Medieval `Golden Age’ of Copto-Arabic Christology
Postcript: The Modern Legacy of Coptic Christology |
| Authors, editors, and contributors |
| Stephen J. Davis, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Yale University |
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